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Montreal North RiotWed, 13 Aug 2008 10:14:31 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e4f_1218636871
oohahMONTREAL - People in the Montreal neighbourhood where 18-year-old Fredy Villenueva was fatally wounded weren't waiting for explanations Sunday night. Their fury erupted into a riot in Montreal North, with knots of protesters roaming the streets and setting fire to cars and garbage barricades.
The Montreal riot police squad was called out, and hundreds of officers formed a perimeter four or five blocks away.
Rioters vandalized the local fire station and set several cars outside ablaze. The firefighters were evacuated. A building kitty-corner to the fire station and community centre burst into flames shortly after 11 p.m. Onlookers cheered as a van went up in flames.
Some looters were seen being arrested after 1 a.m. Monday. A police spokesman said two officers and one paramedic suffered non-serious injuries.
Phalanxes of white-helmeted police officers patrolled the streets and the park where Villanueva was shot.
"I just don't understand why the police took my son's life," Lilian Villanueva said Sunday as tears streamed down her face. She could barely speak between sobs.
Their son, Fredy, died in hospital Saturday night after a confrontation with officers near Henri Bourassa Park.
A Montreal police statement said officers felt threatened by Fredy, his brother Dany and a number of friends, which is why they reacted with force. But Fredy's sisters said they couldn't figure out how anybody could have felt threatened by their younger brother. They said Fredy was a low-key kid whose favourite activity was playing video games.
"He was shy. He wasn't the type of guy who would antagonize a police officer," said Julissa, 25. "He didn't like clubbing or drinking beer. He was a quiet guy; he liked to stay in."
The family is still trying to piece together the events that led to Fredy Villanueva's death.
The Surete du Quebec, which has taken over the investigation because it involves Montreal police, remained tight-lipped about the incident.
"I can't tell you what they were doing, we don't even know how many (teenagers) there were," said Sgt. Gregory Gomez Del Prado, a spokesman for the provincial police.
According to Gomez Del Prado, two police officers in a cruiser approached a group of young people gathered in the parking lot behind the Henri Bourassa arena after 7 p.m. Saturday.
Witnesses said police arrived while the group was calmly throwing dice behind the arena, next to a field where children were playing soccer. The witnesses said the police officers singled out Dany Villanueva. They tried to search him and when he resisted, a male officer pushed him to the ground and arrested him, some teens said.
The SQ would not reveal the reason for the arrest. There were conflicting reports about which officer fired the shots.
Claude Laguerre, who said he was one of the young people involved in the incident, said no one in the group made physical contact with the police officers.
"We were six guys and two girls. We approached, but we didn't touch them."
Other witnesses said Fredy and about a half-dozen other young people confronted the police to try to separate them from Dany, who later was placed in the back seat of the cruiser.
Neighbours reported hearing three or four gunshots before the group scattered.
"It turned bad," said Kassem Hamad, 22, who identified himself as a close friend of the victims.
A statement issued by Montreal police late Saturday explained their version of events. The police said the officers were surrounded by youths when they tried to arrest one suspect.
"At one point, the group began to move and a good number of individuals charged toward the police and threatened them," the statement said. "One of the police officers present then fired in the direction of the suspects, striking three of them."
Fo Niemi, co-founder of the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, called for a public inquiry into the shooting.
"The use of a gun seems completely unjustified," he said. "We want to know whether this is standard police technique."
The Villanuevas immigrated from Honduras in 1998.
Sunday, they said their faith in their adoptive country had been shaken to its core.
"We thought we were going to be better off," Julissa said. "We thought therewas justice here. We thought the police were supposed to protect us."http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e4f_1218636871oohahMontreal North Riotmontreal, riot, vandalism, police, Montreal North Riot - Part 1Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:01:53 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d81_1218632513
oohahMONTREAL - People in the Montreal neighbourhood where 18-year-old Fredy Villenueva was fatally wounded weren't waiting for explanations Sunday night. Their fury erupted into a riot in Montreal North, with knots of protesters roaming the streets and setting fire to cars and garbage barricades.
The Montreal riot police squad was called out, and hundreds of officers formed a perimeter four or five blocks away.
Rioters vandalized the local fire station and set several cars outside ablaze. The firefighters were evacuated. A building kitty-corner to the fire station and community centre burst into flames shortly after 11 p.m. Onlookers cheered as a van went up in flames.
Some looters were seen being arrested after 1 a.m. Monday. A police spokesman said two officers and one paramedic suffered non-serious injuries.
Phalanxes of white-helmeted police officers patrolled the streets and the park where Villanueva was shot.
"I just don't understand why the police took my son's life," Lilian Villanueva said Sunday as tears streamed down her face. She could barely speak between sobs.
Their son, Fredy, died in hospital Saturday night after a confrontation with officers near Henri Bourassa Park.
A Montreal police statement said officers felt threatened by Fredy, his brother Dany and a number of friends, which is why they reacted with force. But Fredy's sisters said they couldn't figure out how anybody could have felt threatened by their younger brother. They said Fredy was a low-key kid whose favourite activity was playing video games.
"He was shy. He wasn't the type of guy who would antagonize a police officer," said Julissa, 25. "He didn't like clubbing or drinking beer. He was a quiet guy; he liked to stay in."
The family is still trying to piece together the events that led to Fredy Villanueva's death.
The Surete du Quebec, which has taken over the investigation because it involves Montreal police, remained tight-lipped about the incident.
"I can't tell you what they were doing, we don't even know how many (teenagers) there were," said Sgt. Gregory Gomez Del Prado, a spokesman for the provincial police.
According to Gomez Del Prado, two police officers in a cruiser approached a group of young people gathered in the parking lot behind the Henri Bourassa arena after 7 p.m. Saturday.
Witnesses said police arrived while the group was calmly throwing dice behind the arena, next to a field where children were playing soccer. The witnesses said the police officers singled out Dany Villanueva. They tried to search him and when he resisted, a male officer pushed him to the ground and arrested him, some teens said.
The SQ would not reveal the reason for the arrest. There were conflicting reports about which officer fired the shots.
Claude Laguerre, who said he was one of the young people involved in the incident, said no one in the group made physical contact with the police officers.
"We were six guys and two girls. We approached, but we didn't touch them."
Other witnesses said Fredy and about a half-dozen other young people confronted the police to try to separate them from Dany, who later was placed in the back seat of the cruiser.
Neighbours reported hearing three or four gunshots before the group scattered.
"It turned bad," said Kassem Hamad, 22, who identified himself as a close friend of the victims.
A statement issued by Montreal police late Saturday explained their version of events. The police said the officers were surrounded by youths when they tried to arrest one suspect.
"At one point, the group began to move and a good number of individuals charged toward the police and threatened them," the statement said. "One of the police officers present then fired in the direction of the suspects, striking three of them."
Fo Niemi, co-founder of the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, called for a public inquiry into the shooting.
"The use of a gun seems completely unjustified," he said. "We want to know whether this is standard police technique."
The Villanuevas immigrated from Honduras in 1998.
Sunday, they said their faith in their adoptive country had been shaken to its core.
"We thought we were going to be better off," Julissa said. "We thought therewas justice here. We thought the police were supposed to protect us."http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d81_1218632513oohahMontreal North Riot - Part 1montreal, riot, northRaw video, Man accused of beheading taken to courtFri, 01 Aug 2008 17:37:39 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a80_1217626659
oohahFri, Aug 01 -- Vince Weiguang Li appeared in court in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba on Friday charged with a brutal killing and beheading.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a80_1217626659oohahRaw video, Man accused of beheading taken to courtbeheading, manitoba, greyhound, bus, canada, stabbing, decapitation, tim mclean, Man stabbed and beheaded on Greyhound bus: Chilling witness accountThu, 31 Jul 2008 15:16:11 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c2e_1217531771
oohahBRANDON, Man. - Thirty-six passengers on a Greyhound bus watched in horror Wednesday night as a fellow passenger stabbed a man sleeping next to him, decapitated him and began waving around the man's severed head.
The bus made an emergency stop, and passengers fled in terror onto the darkening Trans-Canada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Man., while the bus's driver and a driver of a nearby truck shut the crazed man inside the bus with the victim. Passengers on the Winnipeg to Edmonton bus say they stood outside and watched through the window, horrified, as the man disfigured the victim's body.
RCMP have confirmed they are investigating a homicide, although investigators won't provide further details about how a young man was stabbed to death and then decapitated.
"He didn't do anything to provoke the guy. The guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off," said Garnet Caton, 36, a passenger.
"Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock . . . everybody was running, screaming off the bus."
Greyhound spokesman Eric Wesley, speaking from Texas, said drivers are trained to get help as soon as they can when incidents occur.
"This is very rare, unique occurrence. Bus transportation is one of the safest modes of transportation. This is highly unique that something like this happened," he said. "Our drivers are trained to provide the safest travel for all our passengers, and every time an incident occurs they know to pull the bus over and call 911."
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, speaking in Quebec City, said the issue of safety on buses may need to be examined more closely once the legal process of this case is over.
"We're never closed to looking at how Canadians can be more safe and more secure," Day told reporters in Quebec Thursday. "This particular incident, as horrific as it is, is obviously extremely rare."
Witnesses described a nightmarish scene inside the bus.
Caton and others said once they escaped the bus, they prevented the attacker from getting off by threatening him with makeshift weapons - a hammer and a metal bar.
"We were telling him, 'Stay put, stay put, stay there, don't try to come out.' He tried to get the bus working and the bus driver disabled the bus somehow in the back, I'm not sure how he did it, and at that point, I think the police showed up," he said, adding officers rushed them away.
Caton described the man who attacked the passenger as about six feet tall, 200 pounds, with a bald head and wearing sunglasses. He seemed oblivious to others when the stabbing occurred, said Caton.
Caton said he was struck by how calm the man was. He just walked up to the front of the bus and dropped the head, Caton said.
Caton said the victim boarded in Edmonton, was Aboriginal in appearance, was wearing hip-hop clothing and appeared to be around 20 years of age.
"When we saw the head, we knew he was dead," he said. "I don't think the guy knew him at all. I think he was really crazy . . . the poor guy, he didn't see it coming."
Two yellow school buses were brought in to the closed-off stretch of highway for passengers to sit in while the standoff between officers and the man inside the bus proceeded for hours.
The passengers were later taken to Brandon, Man., to be interviewed by police and to stay overnight at a hotel there. Some will be resuming their trips later Thursday.
Crisis counsellors were also at the hotel to provide support to the passengers, and counsellors could be seen chatting with them outside the hotel as groups went out to local stores for snacks or to smoke cigarettes.
One small boy, who was with an adult man and woman, was given a plush teddy bear by a crisis health worker.
Another young man from Nova Scotia sat outside the Brandon hotel smoking around 3 a.m. Visibly shaken, he said RCMP had taken 36 witnesses in for questioning into a detachment approximately 100 kilometres east.
"I felt bad that all the young people and old people had to see that," he said.
The man, who did not want his name used, said the victim of the stabbing had been sleeping before the attack.
Other passengers said that the two men were sitting at the rear of the bus and the stabbing victim was listening to music through his headphones. The men were both sitting in the back of the bus, and the attack appeared to be unprovoked.
"The first thing I heard was something like a terrible type (of) yowl and that was from the guy who got stabbed," said an elderly woman on the bus, from Winnipeg.
The woman and her adult daughter said they were three or four rows in front of the suspect when the attack began.
"(My daughter said) 'Oh my God' and everybody else started screaming," she said. "They had terror in their eyes."
Passengers said there was a rush of people toward the front of the bus to get off.
Two other passengers on the bus, a 22-year-old man and 21-year-old woman from France, said they were heading to Winnipeg after visiting the woman's father in Whitehorse. The 22-year-old man said in French that he saw a man holding a long knife repeatedly stab another passenger. He and his girlfriend said they were shocked by the attack, and the isolation in the middle of the prairie when it occurred.
"There was nowhere to go," she said.
Wesley said counselling will be provided and monetary compensation will be determined on an individual basis.
"We are going to do whatever we need to provide the passengers with counselling or any other measures to make sure they're taken care of," he said Thursday.
He said there are security systems on the buses that enable drivers to contact the Greyhound operations office quickly.
He said officials from the company have been in talks with Transport Canada to review security measures on bus routes, but it could prove difficult.
"Well, the rural nature of our network doesn't allow us to have airport-style security - doesn't make it practical for us to do that. We're working with Transport Canada to review inner-city bus security," Wesley said. "We're working with them to make things as safe as possible."http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c2e_1217531771oohahMan stabbed and beheaded on Greyhound bus: Chilling witness accountgreyhound, beheading, murder, bus, stabbing